Border reopening: 33,700 people cleared Malaysia-Singapore land checkpoints on April 1

Vehicles form a long queue to enter the Woodlands Checkpoint in Singapore early on April 1, 2022, before crossing the Causeway to Johor. - AFP

SINGAPORE: A total of 33,700 travellers cleared the Woodlands and Tuas checkpoints as of 5pm on Friday (April 1), the first day of the reopening of the Singapore-Malaysia land border, CNA reported on Saturday (April 2).

Quoting Singapore's Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA), the news portal said that 6,100 people entered Singapore and another 27,600 departed the country to Malaysia through both land checkpoints as of 5pm.